This book is certainly interesting, and if you’ve read nothing about Steve Jobs in the past, you might find some of the contents reasonably intriguing - Jobs was an fascinating, if extremely difficult person. However, if you have read a few books about Jobs in the past, firstly you’ll know where a good proportion of this material comes from, and secondly you’ll realised how much of a missed opportunity this book really is. The fact is that Isaacson had pretty much unfettered access to Jobs over a long and illuminating period of his life, and yet through clearly knowing very little about the technology, he seems repeatedly to have failed to have asked him any questions that gives an insight into Jobs you couldn’t have got by just reading works by a couple of biographers that knew their stuff much better. The more this book progresses, the more you realise quite how much of a huge, missed opportunity it was, and an opportunity that can never be granted to another person again. What a tragic waste. Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography on Amazon

This book is certainly interesting, and if you’ve read nothing about Steve Jobs in the past, you might find some of the contents reasonably intriguing - Jobs was an fascinating, if extremely difficult person. However, if you have read a few books about Jobs in the past, firstly you’ll know where a good proportion of this material comes from, and secondly you’ll realised how much of a missed opportunity this book really is.

The fact is that Isaacson had pretty much unfettered access to Jobs over a long and illuminating period of his life, and yet through clearly knowing very little about the technology, he seems repeatedly to have failed to have asked him any questions that gives an insight into Jobs you couldn’t have got by just reading works by a couple of biographers that knew their stuff much better.

The more this book progresses, the more you realise quite how much of a huge, missed opportunity it was, and an opportunity that can never be granted to another person again. What a tragic waste.

Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography on Amazon

Minifig Famous People #22: Steve Jobs on Flickr.After a long gap in my series of minifig famous people, I wanted to do a tribute to that master of the keynote and purveyor of shiny electrical equipment to a a grateful public, Mr Steve Jobs, as he resigns as Apple’s CEO.

Minifig Famous People #22: Steve Jobs on Flickr.

After a long gap in my series of minifig famous people, I wanted to do a tribute to that master of the keynote and purveyor of shiny electrical equipment to a a grateful public, Mr Steve Jobs, as he resigns as Apple’s CEO.

What do you have to do to get some applause around here?

Craig Venter holds a press conference where he announces that he’s synthesised life, and encoded the English language into the DNA of a cell, and right at the end he gets a lacklustre round of applause.

Steve Jobs announces that he’s eventually worked out how to enable multi-tasking on a subset of iPhones, and the crowd goes wild.

It’s a strange world.